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Boxwood at Night, with 290 attendees, sees biggest crowd in event’s 5 years
Medina’s historic cemetery was lighted up and featured live music, docents in period costumes
Photos by Tom Rivers
MEDINA – This group gathers on the top of Boxwood Cemetery on North Garvel Road in Medina to hear Barb Gorham share about David Carr, the first person buried in the cemetery in 1849. Carr told people he wanted to buried on the hill just north of Medina.
Since his burial, about 5,000 others have been buried at Boxwood.
There were 290 people who attended the Boxwood at Night on Saturday, an event that raises money for the cemetery (with tickets at $20 apiece) and also highlights local history.
Barb Gorham was a docent for the second year, dressing in a period costume with a fake beard to portray David Carr.
“It’s a nice event and it’s good for the community,” she said.
She was one of 10 docents at Boxwood at Night.
The band, Together Again, featured Medina teacher Rachel Trillizio on vocals, retired band teacher Jim Steele and other musicians.
Megan “Marge” Furness created this display by her van, which she calls Cindy. Furness is owner of Hippiesque TieDyes, and makes custom tapestry and apparel. This was her first time featured at Boxwood at Night.
This lighted section is the potter’s field area on the other side of the hill at Boxwood. There were 107 people buried in the potter’s field. Of those 107, only 28 have head stones. The Friends of Boxwood Cemetery is working to install a monument listing all 107 people.
Cindy Robinson served as one of the docents. She highlighted the potter’s field and the monument that is expected to soon be installed.
Michael Zelazny sang and played his guitar near the start of the event at Boxwood. The start was near the Glenwood Lake boat launch.
These letters were lighted up for the event, which is organized by Friends of Boxwood Cemetery.
Jenna Papponetti created charcoal landscape drawings of Glenwood Lake and the waterfalls. This piece is called, “Still Water.” Papponetti went kayaking in the lake and near the waterfalls and took photos to reference the drawings.
Catherine Cooper, Orleans County historian, portrayed Amelia Bennett, who was buried in 1831 at a cemetery on Gwinn Street. That area is now a playground. The bodies and monuments were relocated to Boxwood in 1895. There weren’t any new burials at Gwinn Street after 1850, Cooper said.
The Vine Church choir sang hymns in the chapel of the cemetery.
The chapel with the people singing hymns was one of four stops with musicians.
The chapel has been the focus of a restoration effort with a stained-glass windows and interior improvements.
The chapel at Boxwood was built in 1903 with a $22,000 donation from the late Silas Burroughs, who was influential in the pharmaceutical industry. His father also served in Congress.
Reinhard Rogowski portrayed Silas M. Burroughs, who was a congressman and owner of the Burroughs mansion at State Street Park in medina. The mansion was built in 1850 and was one of the area’s finest homes. It burnt down in 1913. His son, Silas Mainville Burroughs, was a very successful entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry.
Mandee DeMarco arranges chicken-wire sculptures on the trunk of where a large tree that recently was taken down. DeMarco is part of a Paradise crew that does pop-up events with art and flood lights.
Kat McKinney portrayed May Howard, a survivor of the Titanic sinking on April 15, 1912. Howard was 27 when she was on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
Howard, a native of England, was headed to visit her brother in Toronto and then her sister in Albion. She traveled as a third-class passenger and secured a spot on a life boat. May lived locally until she died at age 68 in 1958. About 1,500 passengers died after the Titanic hit an ice berg. Howard was one of about 700 survivors.
Shawna Baldwin, left, is dressed as a raven. Robert Keirn is at right. They shared poetry by the famous writer who died in 1849, the year of the first burial at Boxwood.
The read from The Raven, Annabel Lee and The Conqueror Worm.
Move of historian’s office unearths burial permit for woman killed in brutal murder in 1894
Photos from Orleans County Department of History collection: This leather pouch contains burial permits.
By Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian
“Illuminating Orleans” – Volume 6, No. 27
CARLTON – Thanks to the Orleans County Department of Public Works crew, the Department of History collection has been moved to its new location at 162 South Main St., Albion.
The process of packing and unpacking invariably reveals some overlooked items, such as the soft leather pouch pictured above that is filled with papers. Upon examination, it appears that these are Burial Permits, that final document in the paper trail of life.
The handwriting on the first permit is somewhat difficult to decipher, but the stark word which follows the phrase “the cause of death” fairly leaps from the page: Murder. This document is none other than the Burial Permit for Emma Louise Hunt, whose murder was described in the Buffalo News on October 20, 1894 as “the most horrible thing that has ever happened in Orleans County.”
This burial permit was issued for Emma Louise Hunt, October 20, 1894.
Twenty-one year old Emma Louise Hunt was employed as a domestic by Joseph Van Camp, a Carlton farmer who lived on the east side of Sawyer Road in the town of Carlton. William Lake, aged 24, was a hired man also employed by Van Camp. William was enamored of Emma but she did not return his feelings.
After supper on Thursday evening, October 18, 1894, the Van Camp family went out to collect a relative and left Emma and William at the house. William asked Emma to accompany him to an I.O.O.F. oyster supper, she declined. She told him he was “a loafer and a drunkard.” Enraged, he went to the barn for a hammer and proceeded to kill her in a brutal and frenzied manner. We will spare you the gory details of the crime and of the subsequent autopsy which were reported in full in the newspapers of the day.
Lake was apprehended within a few days. A letter of confession which he had written before he murdered Emma was found in his bedroom. He was arraigned before Judge W.C. Ramsdale. Attorney Thomas C. Kirby was appointed to represent him.
Supreme Court Judge Henry A. Childs presided at the trial which was held at the Orleans County Courthouse from Feb. 13-15, 1895. Attorney Kirby claimed that his client was insane, but the letter of confession written prior to the crime was damming. Lake was convicted of murder in the first degree and was given the death sentence. He was removed to Auburn State Prison where he was electrocuted on April 4, 1895.
The Burial Permit was signed by Isaac N. Stebbins, Justice of the Peace. The undertakers were Mathes & Onderdonk who operated a furniture store at 48 N. Main St, in Albion. A large crowd attended the funeral on Saturday, October 21, 1894, when the mangled remains of Emma Louise Hunt were buried in the East Carlton (Kent) cemetery, less than 48 hours after her murder.
Winning Take 5 ticket sold at Medina Walgreens
MEDINA – New York Lottery is reporting that a winning $8,393 Take 5 ticket for the Saturday evening drawing was sold at the Walgreens in Medina. The winning numbers were 21, 22, 23, 28 and 29.
It was one of four tickets for the grand prize. Other tickets were sold at an Amoco in Yonkers (Westchester County) , a Conger’s Little Food Market in Congers (Rockland County), and a 7-Eleven in Miller Place (Suffolk County).
Weekly High School Sports Schedule
Weekly Schedule
Monday
Boys Soccer – CSAT at Roy-Hart, 5 p.m.; Albion at Batavia, Lyndonville/Barker at Attica, Kendall at Pembroke, Wheatland-Chili at Holley, 7 p.m.
Field Hockey – Sacred Heart at Roy-Hart, 5 p.m.
Volleyball – Albion at Batavia, Akron at Roy-Hart, Kendall at Lyndonville, 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Boys Soccer – Medina at Newfane, Wilson at Albion, 6:45 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Kendall at Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m.; Albion at Wilson, Barker/Lyndonville at Roy-Hart/Medina, 6:45 p.m.; Alexander at Holley, 7 p.m.
Field Hockey – Roy-Hart at Barker, 4:30 p.m., Wilson at Newfane; Medina at Kenmore, 7 p.m.
Volleyball – Akron at Medina, Wilson at Roy-Hart, Kendall at Pavilion, 6:30 p.m.
Cross-Country – Medina and Akron at Wilson, Roy-Hart and Newfane at Barker, Holley and Attica at Kendall, 5 p.m.
Wednesday
Boys Soccer – Holley vs. Lyndonville/Barker, 5 p.m. at Lyndonville; Byron-Bergen at Kendall, 7 p.m.
Volleyball – Lyndonville at Wheatland-Chili, Pembroke at Holley, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday
Boys Soccer – Wilson at Medina, Newfane at Roy-Hart, 6:45 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Akron at Barker/Lyndonville, Holley at Byron-Bergen, 5 p.m.; Roy-Hart/Medina at Wilson, Roy-Hart at Newfane, 6:45 p.m.; Kendall at Wheatland-Chili, 7 p.m.
Field Hockey – Nardin at Medina, Newfane at Roy-Hart, Akron at Wilson, 4:30 p.m.
Volleyball – Wilson at Medina, Albion at Akron, Roy-Hart at Newfane, 6:30 p.m.
Friday
Football – West Seneca East vs. Albion/Medina at Albion; Barker/Roy-Hart at Akron, 7 p.m.
Boys Soccer – Lyndonville/Barker at Pembroke, Attica at Holley, 7 p.m.
Volleyball – Kendall at Pembroke, Lyndonville ay Oakfield-Alabama, Holley at Alexander, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday
Boys Soccer – Albion at Akron, 12 p.m.; Roy-Hart at Medina, 12:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Akron at Albion, Barker/Lyndonville vs. Wilson at Lyndonville, 10 a.m.
Field Hockey – Medina at Roy-Hart, 10 a.m.
N-O Standings
Boys Soccer – Wilson 7-0-0, Akron 6-2-0, Medina 3-3-0, Newfane 3-4-0, Roy-Hart 1-5-1, Albion 0-6-1.
Girls Soccer – Wilson 6-0, Akron 5-1, Albion 5-3, Barker/Lyndonville 3-4, Roy-Hart/Medina 2-5, Newfane 0-8.
Field Hockey – Akron 8-0, Barker 6-1, Kenmore 3-4, Wilson 3-4, Newfane 2-4, Medina 1-5, Roy-Hart 1-6
Volleyball – Newfane 6-0, Wilson 4-2, Akron 3-1, Roy-Hart 2-3, Medina 1-5, Albion 1-6
Boys Cross-Country – Barker 4-0, Albion 5-1, Akron 2-2, Medina 2-2, Newfane 1-3, Roy-Hart 1-3, Wilson 0-4
Girls Cross-Country – Akron 4-0, Newfane 3-1, Albion 4-2, Roy-Hart 2-2, Barker 1-3, Medina 1-3, Wilson 0-4
High School Football Weekend Recap
Weekend Notes
Albion/Medina, which rallied with a big four touchdown scoring burst to down host Maryvale 46-34 Thursday, has grabbed sole possession of the B1 Division lead as Williamsville South upended previously unbeaten McKinley 21-6 on Friday. The 4-0 Rivals now hold a one game lead over a trio of one loss teams including Williamsville South and West Seneca East, both 4-1, and McKinley 3-1.
Barker/Roy-Hart maintained sole possession of the C North Division lead at 4-0 by thumping JFK 72-38 Friday.
B1 Division
Game Results
Albion/Medina 46, Maryvale 34
Williamsville South 21, McKinley 6
West Seneca East 63, Lew-Port 0
Lake Shore 41, Amherst 8
Standings (Division, Overall)
Albion/Medina 4-0, 5-0
West Seneca East 4-1, 4-1
Williamsville South 4-1, 4-1
McKinley 3-1, 4-1
Maryvale 2-2, 3-2
Lake Shore 1-4, 1-4
Lew-Port 0-4, 0-5
Amherst 0-4, 0-5
Friday’s Schedule
West Seneca East vs. Albion/Medina at Albion, 7 p.m.
Maryvale at Williamsville South, 7 p.m.
Lake Shore at McKinley, 7 p.m.
Amherst at Lew-Port, 7 p.m.
C North Division
Game Results
Barker/Roy-Hart 72, JFK 38
Springville 26, Eden/North Collins 20
Alden 28, Akron 16
Cleveland Hill 30, Tonawanda 0
Standings (Division, Overall)
Barker/Roy-Hart 4-0, 4-1
Springville 3-1, 4-2
Cleveland Hill 3-1, 3-2
JFK 2-2, 2-3
Alden 2-2, 2-3
Eden/NC 2-3, 2-3
Akron 1-3, 1-4
Tonawanda 0-5, 0-5
Thursday’s Game
Eden/NC at JFK, 7 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Barker/Roy-Hart at Akron, 7 p.m.
Alden at Tonawanda, 7 p.m.
Cleve Hill at Springville, 7 p.m.
Albion downs Holley in youth football
Contributed Photo – Albion s Xavier Weis in route to a 21 yard touchdown run.
The Albion Mini Eagles turned in a dominant performance on both sides of the ball, rolling to a 32-0 shutout victory over Holley Saturday in Niagara Orleans Football Association (NOFA) action..
Albion’s offense featured a balanced rushing attack led by Patrick Westlund, who carried for 91 yards and a touchdown. Xavier Weis added 65 yards and a score, while Elijah Cornick rushed for 50 yards and a touchdown.
Lexington Pridgen added 21 rushing yards, Hudson Palmer had 19, Carter Hall contributed seven and Gunner Jackson added six.
Jackson also made an impact through the air, connecting with Westlund for two touchdown passes. Landon Stalker added two PAT conversions to round out the scoring.
The Mini Eagles were equally impressive defensively, keeping Holley off the scoreboard throughout the game.
Westlund and Jaxon Sloper led the defense with eight tackles apiece. Palmer, Jordan Button, Weis and Pridgen each recorded five tackles, while Drake Neri and Noah Button finished with three each. Cornick, Stalker, Wyatt Snyder, Colton Daggs, Artavion Lewis and Arlen Beecher each added two tackles. Zavier Richardson, Jaxon Francis, Hall, Jameson Wiesinger-Garvey, Kaydence Harper, Maximiano Rivera and Chaz Monacelli were also in on tackles.
Albion JV Eagles Top Holley, 33-13
Special teams provided a huge spark for the Albion JV Eagles as they picked up a 33-13 victory over Holley.
Albion’s special teams came up big in the first half, with Easton Hodgins and Kairo Bennett each returning kickoffs for touchdowns to help the Eagles take control of the game.
The Eagles also put together a strong rushing attack. Jayce Torres led the way with 90 yards and a touchdown. Cayden Farrell rushed for 31 yards, Jai’heem Drisdom added 24, Arkell Lewis had 10 yards and a touchdown, Conor Murphy added eight yards and Greyson Roberts chipped in four.
Farrell also made an impact through the air, connecting with Elijah Warren for a touchdown pass.
Defensively, Kaydence Russaw led the Eagles with 12 tackles. Bennett followed with 10 tackles to go along with his kickoff return touchdown, while Lewis recorded eight. Kyle Schomske finished with seven tackles, while Harrison Froman and Parker Gardner each recorded six. Kris Wilston-Jones and Farrell each had five tackles, Mason Cornick added four, and Kaynon Reamer and Zion Richardson finished with two apiece. Zeus Vallejo, Murphy, Drisdom, Warren, Tyler Patten, Larry Thayer and Torres were also in on tackles for the Eagles.
Elks Lodge in Albion rocked with Yacht Club band
Photos by Tom Rivers
ALBION – The band, Yacht Club, gave a high-energy performance eon Saturday night at the Elks Lodge for “Rocktoberfest.”
The Albion Recreation Committee welcomed the band with proceeds from the event going to Albion’s July 3rd celebration with music, fireworks and other activities at Bullard Park. There was a $5 admission charge and the Elks served food and refreshments.
Yacht Club touts itself as “Western NY’s Premier Yacht Rock party band covering all your favorite Yacht Rock Classics from the ’70s and ’80s.”
The Elks hosted the concert that filled the lodge on West State Street.
Albion and Holley girls post soccer wins
Avenging an early season 1-0 loss, Albion downed visiting Roy-Hart/Medina 2-0 in a Niagara-Orleans League girls soccer game this evening.
Lena Grillo and Shayla Higgins each scored a goal for Albion both coming off assists from Madison Frasier.
Albion is now 5-3 and Roy-Hart/Medina 2-5 in N-O action.
Holley 7, Pembroke 0
Holley blanked visiting Pembroke 7-0 in a Genesee Region League girls soccer game this evening.
Carsyn Mogle had 4 goals for the Lady Hawks as Jayna Burris, Riley Constantino and Philomena Arnold each had 1. Mogle and Addison Bevins also had 2 assists and Burris 1.
Albion and Roy-Hart tie in OT; Holley wins
Photos by Cheryl Wertman – Albion’s Alakai Colmenero puts a shot on goal as Devin Waters defends for Roy-Hart during the Purple Eagles win over the visiting Rams this afternoon.
Albion and Roy-Hart battled to a 1-1 double overtime tie in a Niagara-Orleans League boys soccer game this afternoon at Albion.
Garret Jones scored for Albion in the first half off an assist from Alakai Colmenero.
Michael Fuller tallied for Roy-Hart in the second half.
Roy-Hart is now 1-5-1 and Albion 0-6-1 in N-O action.
Holley 1, Avoca-Prattsburg 0
Holley nipped visiting Avoca-Prattsburg 1-0 in a non league game as Cooper Wolf scored the Hawks goal off an assist from Jayden Rivera.
Roy-Hart goalie Will Bundrock goes down to make the save on a shot by Albion’s Brendan Smith.
Barker/Lyndonville posts shutout victory
Barker/Lyndonville blanked Newfane 7-0 in a Niagara-Orleans League girls soccer game this afternoon at Barker.
Natalie Rath and Elysse Dillenbeck both scored 2 goals as Villette Jary, Lila Belson and Cheyanne Rouse each had 1.
Mel Murphy earned the shutout in goal.
Barker/Lyndonville is now 3-4 and Newfane 0-8 in N-O action.
